From The San Francisco Chronicle…   An evangelical Christian minister from Missouri, has come to San Francisco to teach gays and lesbians how to become straight.  And how to lie for Jesus …

The Brodeurs — who do weekly outreach in the Castro to encourage gay people to re-evaluate their sexual orientation — said they invited Desert Stream to use their church for the seminar. It cost $35 and drew participants from congregations around the Bay Area.

"Their message is about bringing the love of Jesus into people’s hearts," she said. "It’s not ‘Don’t do this. You’re evil, you’re going to hell.’ "

Well that’s certainly a welcome change from the usual hellfire and damnation spew isn’t it?

Not… 

But a workshop handout written by Desert Stream founder Andy Comiskey ticked off a list of "wickedness," including lesbianism, sexual violence and child molestation, and stated: "For those who overcome the darkness, a rich and eternal inheritance. For those who refuse to overcome, eternal judgment."

Feel the love.  One of the protesters outside the seminar related his story of how he’d been in an ex-gay program for eight years and it nearly drove him to suicide.  But what you have to understand about these ministries is that what happens to the people in them doesn’t matter.

"I went through depression, major anxiety, panic disorder and attempted suicide."

They didn’t take him in to cure him.  They took him in to use him in their little dirty war on the ability of people to freely love and be loved with or without the permission of the tribal witch doctor.  There is no reverence for the sacred that begins with a lie.  That seminar wasn’t about letting love come into a human heart, whether it’s the love a same sex couple find in each other or the love of Christ or the love of God Almighty.  Love knows no authority but itself.  That’s the problem with it.  That’s why they want it out of our hearts altogether.  Our hearts have to be emptied.  So that they can fill them with their will.  If it kills a few of us…so what?